What we can learn from the life of Uruguay’s former guerrilla and leftist president Pepe Mujica. Throughout his time in power, Pepe Mujica came across like an unfiltered grandpa, quick with stories ...

Jose Mujica is a politician and former president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015, at his farm near Motevideo city, on April 13, 2011. Photo by Ricardo Ceppi/Getty Images. They called him the world’s ...

Thousands joined Mujica's funeral march in Montevideo, Uruguay, May 14 [Photo by Efeland / CC BY 4.0] Thousands turned out for José “Pepe” Mujica’s funeral on May 14, filling Montevideo’s streets. The ...

Former Uruguayan president Jose “Pepe” Mujica casts his ballot in Montevideo, during the country’s 2024 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. Photo: Gastón Britos / EFE The Uruguayan leftist and ...

José “Pepe” Mujica did not have much use for Uruguay’s three-story presidential residence, with its chandeliers, elevator, marble staircase and Louis XV furniture. “It’s crap,” he told me last year.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — (AP) — In the soaring palace of Uruguay's parliament, leftist presidents from the region came to remember former President José Mujica on Thursday as a generous and charismatic ...

José Mujica—the former guerrilla fighter, political prisoner, philosopher, and Uruguayan President, known affectionately throughout Latin America as Pepe—died on Tuesday, at the age of eighty-nine.

José “Pepe” Mujica died on Tuesday, May 13 at age eighty-nine. Mujica was an icon of the democratic left in Latin America and around the world. In the mid-1960s, he joined Uruguay’s Tupamaros—a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — In the soaring ...